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SysAdmin1615's avatar
SysAdmin1615
Level 2
9 years ago

Why are the tapes marked overwriteable?

When I put in expired tapes to the tape machine, Backup Exec is marking all the tapes overwriteable and linking them together. I only have 6 tapes availible to write on to. I used to have only two ov...
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Backup and Recovery
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  • Colin_Weaver's avatar
    Colin_Weaver
    9 years ago

    Have you got Media Protection (in the overall BE settings) set to None? as if you have this will ignore any Overwrite protection in your media sets.

    I am also not sure what you mean by linking them together but otherwise agree with Larry Fine if the tapes are expired then for a tape this means overwritable.

SysAdmin1615's avatar
SysAdmin1615
Level 2
9 years ago

If you look at the attachment the tapes that are overwriteable are in blue. we have a media set called keep for 8 weeks. The tapes that are written to need to have the same OverWrite Protection until option enabled.